Image: Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad. Wikimedia Commons.
Mahatma Gandhi’s life and India’s freedom movement are closely connected with a network of places across the country. Ashrams, villages, railway stations, memorials and sites of protest preserve different chapters of that history.
Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad
Sabarmati Ashram became one of Gandhi’s principal centres in India. It was the starting point of the 1930 Salt March to Dandi.
Champaran, Bihar
Champaran was the site of Gandhi’s 1917 Satyagraha on behalf of indigo cultivators. The campaign became an important early example of his method of mass civil resistance in India.
Kheda, Gujarat
In Kheda, Gandhi and his colleagues supported cultivators seeking relief from land revenue during a period of crop failure and economic hardship.
Dandi, Gujarat
Dandi is associated with the conclusion of Gandhi’s 1930 Salt March. The march transformed opposition to the salt law into a major civil-disobedience campaign.
Sevagram, Wardha
Gandhi moved to Sevagram in 1936. The ashram became a centre for village work, education, khadi and his constructive programme.
Gandhi Smriti, New Delhi
Formerly Birla House, Gandhi Smriti preserves the site associated with Gandhi’s final months and his assassination on 30 January 1948.
Why these places matter
Together, these locations show that Gandhi’s political work was spread across villages, cities and rural communities rather than concentrated in one place.
Read NewsNationOnline’s Sevagram feature, Dandi March feature and Gandhi Smriti feature. Explore the Gandhi Heritage Portal.
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